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Sentences ending with materials

Of what avail were all his ability and the most honest good-will if no opportunity offered for his executing his work in noble materials? [10]
The notes to 'The Prince and the Pauper' show again how carefully Clemens examined his historical background, and his interest in these materials. [5]
On looking at the house, it was plain that it was built with Old-World notions of strength and durability, and, so far as might be, with Old-World materials. [6]
We can hardly say too much of what it has contributed to our knowledge of the universe and our power of dealing with its materials. [3]
The finish was reached at last, the evolutions were complete, and a fine success, but I think that this result could have been achieved with fewer materials. [5]
The finish was reached at last, the evolutions were complete and a fine success; but I think that this result could have been achieved with fewer materials. [5]
We know something of the manner in which Mr. Motley collected his materials. [6]
I had been meditating a biography, and was grieved to find that there were no materials. [5]
Where are my materials? [14]
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials. [5]

Short sentences using materials

The materials are all here. [4]

More example sentences with the word materials in them

It took many years to train the as yet undisciplined powers into orderly obedience, and to bring the unarranged materials into the organic connection which was needed in the construction of a work that should endure. [6]
The forces at work in a human intelligence to bring harmony out of its discordant movements are as mysterious, as miraculous, we might truly say, as those which give shape and order to the confused materials out of which habitable worlds are evolved. [6]
Productions without talent, without spirit, without discrimination, flat and pitiful eulogies, exaggerations surpassing the limits of the most robust faith, invectives against such as dared to doubt the dogmas which had been proclaimed, or catalogues of remedies; of such materials is it composed! [3]
They know she will, her stock of usable materials being limited and her procedure in employing them always the same, substantially. [5]
Though the materials which she selected were not the most costly, her aristocratic bearing made them appear valuable. [10]
Even in subjects which had no such elements of horror he finds the materials for the delectation of his ferocious pencil; he makes up for the defect by rendering with a brutal realism deformity and ugliness. [6]
Every healthy cell, whether in a vegetable or an animal, necessarily performs its function properly so long as it is supplied with its proper materials and stimuli. [3]
She well knew what was passing in the father's mind, for the day before he had brought all sorts of artist's materials, and told her to arrange the little gable-room, with the large window facing towards the north, and put the easel and colors there. [10]
The Stamp Act was to make everybody stamp all materials so they should be null and void. [5]
Although our author was somewhat far advanced, and Mr. Prescott had not yet collected his materials, Irving renounced the glorious theme in such a manner that Prescott never suspected the pain and loss it cost him, nor the full extent of his own obligation. [4]
We are doing very well, on the whole, considering what we are and the materials we have to work on. [4]
The various words used in building them are in the dictionary, but in a very scattered condition; so you can hunt the materials out, one by one, and get at the meaning at last, but it is a tedious and harassing business. [5]
Reason cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason--must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense. [7]
I had crowded together the most gorgeous and even some of the most useful and durable materials for my woof, but I had no pattern, and consequently never began to weave. [6]
Now, it seems to me that the transmutation of the crude and heretofore unpoetical materials which he found in the New World into what is as absolute a creation as exists in literature, was a distinct work of the imagination. [4]
I shall try to get the whole of the Leicester administration, terminating with the grand drama of the Invincible Armada, into one volume; but I doubt, my materials are so enormous. [6]
At the same time he is not oppressed by his materials, but has sagacity to estimate their real value, and he has combined with scholarly power the facts which they contain. [6]
The materials of this biographical fable are facts, rumors, and poetry. [5]
Both parties handle the same materials, but the Baconians seem to me to get much more reasonable and rational and persuasive results out of them than is the case with the Shakespearites. [5]
The knowledge of the natural world, and of materials, was never, I believe, so extensive and exact as it is today. [4]
And so, in the midst of this quiet inland town, where a mere accident had placed Mr. Bernard Langdon, there was a concentration of explosive materials which might at any time change its Arcadian and academic repose into a scene of dangerous commotion. [6]
I suppose, after the bank debt shall be paid, there will be some money left, out of which I would like to have you pay Lavely and Stout twenty dollars, and Priest and somebody (oil-makers) ten dollars, for materials got for house-painting. [7]
Having satisfied himself that they were of the same pattern and materials, he came to a stop apparently absorbed in meditation. [12]
I don't know that I ever put a situation together better, or got happier spectacular effects out of the materials available. [5]
Mr Swiveller replied that he had very recently been assuaging the pangs of thirst, but that he was still open to 'a modest quencher,' if the materials were at hand. [12]
The materials were surprisingly rich, both in quality and in mass, and Marcus Clarke, Ralph Boldrewood, Cordon, Kendall, and the others, have built out of them a brilliant and vigorous literature, and one which must endure. [5]
But if originally sound and subsequently diseased, there has certainly been some excess, deficiency, or wrong quality in the materials or stimuli applied to it. [3]
He had accumulated some materials, and upon these he set to work. [4]
But at the solicitation of the young officer he was furnished with writing materials, and wrote briefly to his mother, his sister, and his betrothed. [4]
It was favourably situated for this purpose, for the raw materials could be moved from the ships which brought them to Tennis directly into the building. [10]
Katterle had long since laid the paper and writing materials before her, but she still pondered. [10]
One of the significant proposals under this head is that which demands the retention of the centralization of the purchase of raw materials brought about by the war. [9]
A scholar must shape his own shell, secrete it one might almost say, for secretion is only separation, you know, of certain elements derived from the materials of the world about us. [6]
It will be seen that what the surgeon wanted consisted chiefly of opiates, stimulants, cathartics, plasters, and materials for bandages. [3]
You writers go searching all round for materials, just as painters do, fit for your genius. [4]
The flat, plastered roof is garnished by picturesque stacks of fresco materials, which, having become thoroughly dried and cured, are placed there where it will be convenient. [5]
With labour past reckoning we dragged her to shore, and got her on the stocks, and then set about to find materials to mend her. [11]
That is the reason why the novelists find it next to impossible, with all the materials at hand, to make a good woman--that is a woman. [4]
He wants to read so many books that he over-crams himself with the crude materials of knowledge, which become knowledge only when the mental digestion has time to assimilate them. [6]
The host, Lykortas, pointed out to Hadrian an old gentleman who was busy in the court that was so prettily decorated with still-life, engaged in choosing the raw materials of a banquet he wished to give some friends in the evening of this very day. [10]
He wrote some papers at this time for the "Plow, the Loom and the Anvil," upon the strength of materials, and especially upon bridge-building, which attracted considerable attention, and were copied into the English "Practical Magazine. [5]
Having spared no pains in collecting his materials, he told his story, as we all know, with flowing ease and stirring vitality. [6]
To repeat his own words, he had crowded together the materials for his work, but he had no pattern, and consequently never began to weave. [6]
It was the one which closed the passage leading to the combustible materials stored in the cellar. [10]
At the end of their consultation, which was very brief, the Notary pointed to the writing materials on the table, and informed Mr Brass that if he wished to make any statement in writing, he had the opportunity of doing so. [12]
On the ninth of May there was a summons, and Manchon and I got out materials together and started. [5]
All the materials of his dress were rich, and all the colors brilliant. [5]
The great enterprise of connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific States by railways and telegraph lines has been entered upon with a vigor that gives assurance of success, notwithstanding the embarrassments arising from the prevailing high prices of materials and labor. [7]
I am helping now to work up the materials for a Tourist's Guide which the St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company are going to issue this summer for the benefit of travelers who go by that line. [5]
There could be no mistake in these figures; here was the contract, Mr. Bolton knew what materials were worth and what the labor would cost. [5]
Even in our most smiling summer days one needs to have the materials of a cheerful fire at hand. [4]
Among the sewing materials which the lady Euryale had laid beside the scrolls was a pair of scissors. [10]
What are the materials of which a steam-engine is made? [5]
Those are the materials furnished by history. [5]
Of course, the materials collected by me at the Hague are of great importance. [6]
They expect a literary man or a scientific expert to furnish them materials for symposia and similar articles, to be used by them for their own special purposes. [6]
He would have liked to hasten home and fetch his materials to paint the likeness of the misjudged man, and to show it to the scoffers. [10]
If they want letters from here, who'll run from morning till night collecting materials cheaper. [5]
When he at last rose and looked at what he had done, he could not help smiling, and asking himself how it was possible to imitate, with such trivial materials, the noblest possessions of man: mind and soul. [10]
When I take its materials apart and work them over and put them together in my way, I find I cannot crowd the result back into the same hole, there not being room enough. [5]
It was finished, it was complete, its materials were strong and lasting, it needed no furbishing up, no repairs; it merely needed to be let alone. [5]
These materials are indeed splendid, and of them most excellent use has been made. [6]
And it was in the year following the publication of the first essay, or about that time (1846), that he began collecting materials for a history of Holland. [6]
On this occasion, however, he is building a statue out of a very queer mixture of materials. [10]
She kept the house scrupulously neat, understood how to prepare tempting dishes from very simple materials, and bought everything she needed for the kitchen. [10]
The poet finds his materials everywhere, as Emerson tells him in this eloquent apostrophe:-- "Thou true land-bird! [6]
Summer and winter his dress was a grey woollen jacket, into which a short pipe was thrust, and around his hips a broad leather belt, from which hung a bag containing his drawing materials. [10]
Directly opposite to him came a strange one-horse vehicle, evidently rigged up by soldiers out of any available materials and looking like something between a cart, a cabriolet, and a caleche. [2]
Well, we can't help it; we got to do the best we can with the materials we've got. [5]
The materials I have collected from the English archives are also extremely important and curious. [6]
When the artist has arranged his materials with an eye to just proportion --the small and the large flakes in alternate rows, and separated by carefully-considered intervals--I know of nothing more cheerful to look upon than a spirited Syrian fresco. [5]
After a cordial greeting from Barop, we had desks assigned us in the schoolroom, which were supplied with piles of books, writing materials, and other necessaries. [10]
He was a good hater--that was well; but it was a question if the materials of his hatreds were of as tough and enduring a quality as those of his friendships--and that was not so well. [5]
The materials that go to the making of the rest of her portrait will prove it. [5]
The materials that go to the making of one woman were set free by the abstraction from inanimate nature of one man's-worth of masculine constituents. [6]
I have arranged for her to sleep; she needs it; if you disturb her without my orders, I'll brain you --if you've got the materials for it. [5]
More promising materials for a tragedy could not have been collated. [5]
Not made of fictions, surmises, reports, rumors, innuendoes, dropped by her enemies; no, she has furnished all of the materials herself, and laid them on the canvas, under my general superintendence and direction. [5]
They were of equal size; and the artist, who had wrought the second in great haste out of the slightest materials, had been enjoined to make Caesar as like as possible in every respect to the hero he most revered. [10]
During this visit Emerson made an excursion to Paris, which furnished him materials for a lecture on France delivered in Boston, in 1856, but never printed. [6]
It takes a cook of long experience, with the best materials, to make a dish "taste good;" and the "taste good" is the indefinable essence, the resulting balance or harmony which makes man or woman agreeable or beautiful or effective in the world. [4]
The noted mineral-waters containing iron, sulphur, carbonic acid, supply nutritious or stimulating materials to the body as much as phosphate of lime and ammoniacal compounds do to the cereal plants. [3]
In the subterranean chambers at the side of the hall, and in the second story, which could not be commenced until the ceiling was completed, store-rooms were to be made, and below and beside them were passages for ventilation and the storage of combustible materials. [10]
Therefore, I have carefully collated the materials for such a work, from authentic sources, and here present them to the public. [5]
No matter, you cannot get a habit-sodden Shakespearite to cipher-up his materials upon any other basis. [5]
This is not by written document, or direct speech, for the most part, but by certain signs of silk, gold, and other materials, which say to all men,--Look on me and love, as in duty bound. [6]
Miss Treherne had brought some sketching materials, and both of us (for, as has been suggested, I had a slight gift for drawing) made sketches of the burial-place. [11]
Its materials have been taken in, and have acted upon the system, and been reacted on by it; it has circulated and done its office in one mind before it is given out for the benefit of others. [6]
I've taken materials as I've found them. [9]
Sometimes it seems as if the body, relieved of its effete materials, renewed its youth after one of these quiet, expurgating, internal fractional cremations. [6]
The explosive materials are everywhere in parcels; but there neither are, nor can be supplied the indispensable connecting trains. [7]
Mr. Barclay's sympathy and compassion were aroused, for he was a most kind and gentle-spirited man, and he patted me on the head and cheered me up by saying there was a whole vast ocean of materials! [5]
But a careful analysis of these descriptions will show that the materials of which they are formed are not individually beautiful and can not be wrought into combinations that are beautiful. [5]
Inness (the best American painter of Nature in her moods of real human feeling) once said, "No man can do anything in art, unless he has intuitions; but, between whiles, one must work hard in collecting the materials out of which intuitions are made. [4]
Over and over again, for hundreds of years, these young gentlemen have been coming forward with their specimens of learning, tied up in neat little parcels, all ready to administer, and warranted to be of the purest materials. [4]
The fiction-artist could achieve no success with the materials of this splendid Tichborne romance. [5]
He used the accumulated materials of centuries. [4]
The other, after a conscientious effort to build a terrestrial paradise out of the same materials, with the addition of a "grave and stately stork," spoils it all by blundering upon the ghastly truth at the last. [5]
Man's mind is a clever machine, and can work up materials into ingenious fancies and ideas, but it can't create the material; none but the gods can do that. [5]
It aims at "supplying thorough indexes to valuable works and collections which have hitherto lacked them; at issuing indexes to the literature of special subjects; and at gathering materials for a general reference index. [3]

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